'Twas brillig when Bob scrobe: > I hope this is the right place for this question. I am running Mandrake Freq > August 10, 2001. I've got an Epson 1200U. I downloaded the latest front and > backends and compiled with no errors. I shut down and restarted. When I > started xsane, it found my scanner and let me do a preview. When I tried to > finish the scan, it hung about half way through. Where it hangs varies. I > was scanning at 600 dpi a 35 meg file onto a vfat partition. I shut the > computer down and restarted. I was able to scan about 10 pictures. Then it > hung again. Now when I restart it will sometimes hang during the preview, > sometimes hang during the final scan. I've got a gig free on the /tmp drive > and 15 gigs free on the target drive. I've run into the same problems as > root and as an everyday user. Sometimes I can scan 20 or 30 photos with no > problems, and others I can't scan at all no matter what I do. Once it hangs, > I've never been able to get it back. I've tried stopping and restarting the > usb and usbd services. cat /proc/bus/usb/devices shows the scanner there > whether it is hung or not. > > Scanning under windows works, but the scans simply aren't as nice and the > autoincrement feature is great. > > Any ideas of what to check?
Does it work any better at 300 dpi? If so, it sounds like my problem. -- Roy Murphy \ CSpice -- A mailing list for Clergy Spouses mur...@panix.com \ http://www.panix.com/~murphy/CSpice.html
